[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#561540: use update-alternatives to provide /usr/bin/gpg

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>On Tuesday 02 March 2010 22:13:10 Daniel Leidert wrote:
>> Am Sonntag, den 28.02.2010, 23:20 -0500 schrieb Eric Dorland:
>> gnupg2 depends on libcurl, which
>> is of priority:optional (see our solution with gnupg). Ditto for several
>> other dependencies: libpth20, libksba8 and also Gtk+ and its
>> dependencies if you consider to leave the dependency on pinentry-gtk.
>> How are your plans here? Further: What about gpgv? Is it shipped with
>> gnupg2?
Yep, there's a gpgv2 binary currently in the gnupg2 package.

>>
>> gnupg2 is IMO not a replacement option for gnupg in Debian atm.
>>
>>> gnupg2
>>> has a slightly larger footprint, and has a few more small
>>> dependencies. We may be able to tighten things up a bit so that it
>>> takes up less space.
>>
>> I would suggest you start with this.
>>
>>> But I think making it an alternative is a better, more incremental
>>> step.
>>
>> I would like to see this tested, because I have doubts, that one can
>> easily switch between them (especially because of a few user reports I
>> got - but to be honest: I don't know for sure, that the problems were
>> caused by gnupg vs gnupg2).
>>
Okay, I uploaded packages on mentors:

http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.10-3.1.dsc
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_2.0.14-1.1.dsc

I've installed them in Ubuntu 9.10 and switched to gp2, I didn't
encounter any problems yet. I gave gpg1 the higher priority for now
though.

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